Discussion
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rpmisms: Grew up playing Wesnoth, still adore the game. There is a TON of third party content and a serious extended universe, too!
hyperionultra: Could you name a few places to find 3rd party content?
macleginn: So it's like HMM but the whole map is in battle mode?
everdrive: I played the heck out of this about a decade ago. It's an amazing game, and I'd love to return to it and see what has changed.
thatoneengineer: Same!
drob518: Same!
MinimalAction: Interesting! Is this similar to Age of Empires?
phamilton: More like Fire Emblem
coolgoose: I've been playing this for 10+ years :) it's one awesome game and the details for sprites and art direction is sweet.
jjmarr: Highly suggest connecting with one of the lead developers, Charles Dang/Vultraz, if you have any C++ jobs in the USA.He's been a developer on Wesnoth since 2012 but only graduated university in 2024. Unfortunately, it's been an absolutely brutal market for new graduates. Even if you're a maintainer on one of the most popular OSS C++ projects on GitHub.I can't recommend him enough.edit: LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/charles-dang-10994b1b4
wwilson: Thanks,our company is in the DC area so I just reached out with an offer to chat. Wesnoth is an incredible project, I can't believe he doesn't have a programming job.
steveharing1: Open Source Games are really underrated Gems
Quarrelsome: think more hexbased, turnbased, terrain and dice roll mechanics with unit upgrades being extremely important.
wiradikusuma: Sweet! Does anyone have a list of high-quality open source games like this?(Subjective interpretation, but something like, "I couldn't believe it's free, I would have paid for it anyway.")
jordigh: I know it's a very niche domain, but I feel this way about Lizard.My lizard is the lizard of website: https://rainwarrior.ca/lizard/My lizard is the lizard of source: https://github.com/bbbradsmith/lizard_src_demo/
ramses0: A+! They even had an iOS version a while back: `https://apps.apple.com/us/app/the-battle-for-wesnoth/id14507...` (this may be the "Mac" version, see: `https://www.reddit.com/r/wesnoth/comments/1pjkwbw/i_had_wesn...`).If that's your jam then there's also a (non-open-source) "Hero's Hour" which tickles the old Heroes of Might and Magic stylings, works reasonably well on Xbox, where I've been doing most of my gaming lately.As far as Open Source gaming success stories, I'd put this up there in the Top 5 for "Original IP and Concept" (if that makes sense). Just a stellar labor of love, worth giving it a shot to play!
haunter: Also on Steam https://store.steampowered.com/app/599390/Battle_for_Wesnoth...
WickyNilliams: Don't suppose you've played in the steamdeck? Curious how well it works there
